Machine for turning and boring



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. D. W. PEDRIOK.

MACHINE FOR TURNING AND BORING.

' Patented Nov. 20, 1883.

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V UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE,

DANIEL \V. PEDRIOK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN$YLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR TURNiNG AND BORING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,953, dated November20, 1883.

Application filed June '15, 1983. (K0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL XV. PEDRIOK, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful'lmprovements in Machines for Turning and BoringMetal, ofwhich improvements the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement upon that for which Letters Patent of theUnited States No. 188,008, were granted and issued to Lucian B.Flanders, under date of March 6, 1877 5 and its object is to simplifyand perfect the construction and operation of theinechanism by which therequired longitudinal feed is imparted to the tool-carrying cylinder andcutti ng-tool in machines of the character of that setforth in saidLetters Patent.

To this end my improvements consist in a casing for covering andprotecting the feedgearing having a series of feed-gears mountedthereon, and adapted to be vibrated about the axis of the drivingshaftof a turning and her ing machine, and to be connected to and disconnected from said machine at pleasure; also, in the combination of acasing for covering and protecting the feed-gearing, a socket or hearingthereon adapted to fit around the driving-shaft of a turning and boring,machine, feed-gearing mounted in hearings in said casing, and aclamping-screw for fixing the cusin g relatively to the feed-shaft ofthe machine; also, in the combination of a casing for cover ing andprotecting the feed-gearing, a pair of feed-shafts mounted in bearingsthereon and relatively inclined, an intermediate shaft carrying a gear,which meshes with similar gears on the feed'shafts, a gear secured toone of said shafts, and adapted to mesh with a gear upon thedriving-shaft of a turning and -boring machine, and worms secured uponthe feed-shafts, either of said worms being adapted to engage with orboth to be disengaged from a worm-wheel on the feed-shaft of themachine.

The improvements claimed are hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central sectionthrough a machine for turning crank-pins and boring out holes thereforembodying my invention, and Fig. 2

' brated.

a horizontal section through the same at the line :0 cc of Fig. 1. i

My improvements are herein shown and will be described as applied to amachine which is in all particulars, saving as to the feed mech- 5anism, substantially similar to that of Letters Patent No. 188,008aforesaid, to which reference may be had for such detailed descriptionas may be desired of the features of its mech anism, which do notconstitute part "of my present invention. The basc-ring A of the machinecarries a series of columns, A, to which is secured the cap-plate A andwhich serve as guides or bearings for the traverse of the tool-carryingcylinder B, said cylinder, 6 5 with its attached boring or turning toolor tools, as the case may be, being rotated by the application of powerto the driving-shaft G, which is mounted in hearings in the base and capplates, and carries, upon akcy or feather, a spur-pinion, c, whichmeshes with a corresponding gear on the periphery of the cylinder B. Theapparatus is secured upon the work, so that the tool-carrying cylindershall be concentric therewith, by chuck-jaws D and clamps of anyapproved construction. The longitudinal feed is, as in Letters PatentNo. 188,008 aforesaid, imparted automatically to the tool-carryingcylinder from the drivingshaft through a feed-shaft, E, upon which isformed a feed-screw, e, which engages a nut, E, having projections e,which enter circumferential grooves in the tool-carrying cylinder.Rotation is imparted to the feed-shaft in one or the other direction, asrequired, by the improvements which constitute my invention, theconstruct-ion and operation of which is as follows: A casing, F, forcovering and protecting the feed-gearing of substantially sectoraloutline in plan, having an open bottom and a closed top, is fitted torest upon the capplate A of the machine, with which it makes a closejoint at bottom, so as to protect the inclosed gearing from the accessof dust and other foreign matters. A socket or hearing, f, formed uponthe top of the casing F, fits around the driving-shaft G, about the axisof which the casing is thus adapted to be ii A pair of worm-shafts, F F,upon which are formed or secured, respectively, the mo worms f f aremounted in bearings connected to the upper plate of the casing, theaxial lines of said shafts passing through the axis of the driving-shaftC, and thence diverging or being inclined one to the other at such anangle as will, when the casing is moved into such position that itslongitudinal center line intersects the axis of the feed-shaft, enableboth the worms f f to be rotated entirely clear of a Worm-wheel, Esecured upon the upper end of the feed-shaft in line with the axes ofthe worm-shafts. A bevel-pinion, f, upon one of the worm-shafts, F,meshes with a similar pinion, upon the driving-shaft G, and pinions I f"f upon the worm-shafts F F", respectively.

Each engages apinion, f, upon an intermediate or idler shaft, f mountedina bearing leeneath the top plate of the casing. A clamping-stud, f issecured to the cap-plate A and; passes through a verticallyslottedclampingblock, f, thereon, and a nut, f engaging a screw-thread on-theupper end of the stud f serves to hold the casing in desired position byclampingthe upper plate thereof between its lowerface and the block fwhen screwed v to a proper bearing upon said upper plate. It

willbc obvious that by releasing the nut f the feed-casing and itsattached gearing may be readily removed from the machine when required.I

In operation the casingF is swung about the axis of the drivingshaft Cuntil one or the other of the worms f f' is brought into gear with-theworm-wheel E according to the direction in which it is desired to rotatethe feedshaft, and being then fixed in such position by the clamping-nutf, the feed-shaft will consequently be continuously rotated during therevolution of the driving-shaft. At the termination of the requiredtraverse of the tool-carrying cylinder, the nut f is slackened and thecasing moved into and secured in position to engage the opposite Wormwith the wormwheel,-in order to 'eifect the traverse of thetool-carrying cylinder in the opposite direcplate of said machine aboutthe axis of the driving-shaft thereof, and feed-gearing carried by saidcasing and adapted to impart rotation from the driving-shaft to thefeed-shaft.

2. In a turningand-boring machine',the-combination,substantially assetforth, of a casing for covering and protecting the feed-gearing restingon the cap.-p'late of said machine,

and having a socketor bearing fitting around the driving-shaft,feed-gearingmounted upon said casing, and adapted to impart rotation ineither direction from the driving-shaft to the feed-shaft, and aclamping device for securing the casing in desired position upon thecap-plate.

3. The combination, substantiallyasset forth, of a casing for coveringand protecting the feed gearing, a pair of relatively-inclinedfeed-shafts mounted in bearings thereon,'each carrying a Worm adapted tomesh with a wormwheel in the feed-shaft ofaturningandboring machine, anintermediate shaft carrying a gear meshing with gears upon thefeed-shafts of thecasing, and a gear secured uponv one of said shaftsand adapted to mesh with a gear upon the drivingshaft of a turning andborin g machine.

DANIEL V. 'PEDRIGK.

Vitnesses:

J. SNOWDEN BELL, H. G. AYER.

